Shakira

girls:

8.2k births since 1970

#1791 (69th percentile)

overall:

8.2k births since 1970

#2971 (62nd percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shakira".

1970 2023 19702023

Key Statistics

Total Births
8,247
Peak Births
512
Peak Year
2002
First Recorded
1970
Peak Percentile
48.3%
Current Percentile
0.8%
Peak Rank
#463
Current Rank
#939
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Shakira

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Shakira. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 57.5% confident that Shakira is pronounced as shuh-KEE-ruh. The next most likely pronunciation is shuh-KIH-ruh, at 27.5% confidence.

sha-KEE-ruh (3 syllables)
Verified
15.0% confidence
SH AE0 K IY1 R AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Shakira. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Shakira, please vote using the thumbs up button.

shuh-KEE-ree-uh (4 syllables)
7 names 1.3k births
SH AH0 K IY1 R IY0 AH0
shih-KEE-ruh (3 syllables)
4 names 430 births
SH IH0 K IY1 R AH0

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like SH AH0 K IY1 R AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.